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2017 Newsletter Reduced BORDERLAND TOURS NEWS C OLORS, I MPRESSIONS, AND C OMMENT FROM THE W ORLD OF B IRDS 2875 W. Hilltop Road • Portal, Arizona 85632 • 520-558-2351 • Email: [email protected] Explore the Living Museums of the World THE BORDERLAND PHOTO ALBUM FRONT COVER PHOTO: CUBAN TODY BY JOHN YERGER ZAPOTEC WEAVER DESCRIBES NATURAL DYES, OAXACA BY JOHN YERGER JAMAICAN ORIOLE BY RICK TAYLOR GIANT ANTEATER, BRAZIL BY RICK TAYLOR RED-BILLED STREAMERTAIL, JAMAICA BY RICK TAYLOR CHESTNUT-COLORED WOODPECKER, SOUTHERN TAMANDUA, HONDURAS THE LODGE AT PICO BONITO (HONDURAS) BY JOHN YERGER BY JOHN YERGER Serving birders since 1980 - 2 - February 2017 BORDERLAND TOURS NEWS 2875 W. Hilltop Road • Portal, Arizona 85632 • 520-558-2351 • Email: [email protected] FROM RICK’S DESK: WILD TURKEYS Barbara and Bill Bickel saw them first. After a hiatus of 4 months, four hen “Mexican” Wild Turkeys filed past their cabin at dusk and headed downstream. The 100’ tall sycamore that spreads its immense white limbs over our roof, just 200 yards down canyon, has long been their traditional roost. The return of the turkeys seems like a good omen to me. For starters it means spring is on its way. Four hens means that come May at least one glorious, turquoise- headed gobbler will be strutting around the lawn with its radiant tail wide-spread and its coppery wings seductively drooped, uttering bursts of a wild and throaty love song. By then the sycamore will be aflame with small, pastel leaves casting a subtle green translucence over our home. A half-dozen species of hummingbirds will be patronizing the yard, spilling wine-tinted thimbles of iridescence as they perform courtship jigs and describe a meteoric calligraphy of aggression. These turkey hens are not afraid of me. The years have taught them to ignore my meanderings as I go about my chores, halting to yank up my binoculars at any given warbler, tanager, or oriole-shaped provocation. Occasionally they wander over to our kitchen or office windows and indulge some idle curiosity, standing with bill pressed to a pane of glass and staring inside with solemn indifference–or perhaps just at their own reflections. The house is a safe place for a turkey. Within the precincts of our yard predators are unlikely. Bobcats and coyotes–and an occasional mountain lion–patrol the leafy stream-side corridor across the road, but usually avoid our grassy inter-sanctum. When the mail carrier rolls up just before one, the hens simply gawk, although the male may gobble a challenge. And when company arrives for happy hour to watch the hummingbird show, the hens simply circle the lawn furniture before launching into the tree, sometimes from our guests’ very feet. In June the hens start slinking off to attend nests. In July or August the gobbler will disappear to join a bachelor flock on the west side of the Chiricahuas. Soon afterwards hens will begin to pay brief visits to the yard, sometimes accompanied by up to 10 buff-striped poults. Hens that have lost their nests or their own young, will be attacked furiously by the mother birds if they dare to approach the family. Foxes, skunks, hawks, and snakes join larger predators in paring down the size of the family. I’ve never seen a hen succeed in bringing more than two fully flighted young, brown and the size of chickens, up into the sycamore to roost. In late autumn when gales lash the big sycamore and a million golden leaves are ripped from its branches, the last two hens will desert our yard and march over the mountain crest to join one of the big flocks in Pinery Canyon. Like so many of you, all of my life I’ve wanted to be intimate with wildlife. Those big, beautiful Wild Turkeys are a symbol for me. After four months of fending for themselves in these mountains, I feel honored they have once again come to live at our home in Whitetail Canyon. Serving birders since 1980 - 3 - February 2017 POSTCARDS FROM AROUND THE WORLD Honduras Highlands, Feb. 2016–The alarm clock rang early, but close encounters with Singing Quail, Slate-colored Solitaire and Green-breasted Mountain-Gem more than made up for it. Blue-and-white Mockingbird only a few steps from our bedroom doors at Gloriales Inn wasn’t too shabby, either! -JY The Lodge at Pico Bonito, Honduras, Feb.–One of the most memorable half hours of birding: Lovely Cotinga, Emerald Toucanet, White Hawk, Blue-crowned Chlorophonia, Emerald Toucanet Ornate Hawk-Eagle, Yellow-eared Toucanet. Whoa! When will the streak end, we wondered? We finally tore ourselves away; another gourmet meal beckoned. -JY Oaxaca Valley, Mar.–Won’t soon forget Eric Martinez’s bear hug from behind my chair at our first dinner. Or the Ocellated Thrasher we scoped on the next ridgetop...or Dwarf Jays through chilly mountain mist...or ancient Zapotec temples atop Monte Albán... -JY Jamaica, Apr.–Once again we saw all 27 of the endemic birds that inhabit this friendly island. Scoring the ordinarily reclusive Crested Quail-Dove in full sun in co-leader Ann Jamaican Oriole Sutton’s garden at Marshall’s Pen was simply wonderful. -RT AZ Owling Run, May–The most bizarre bird wasn’t even an owl. In Willcox, I finally Atlantic Puffin spotted the Scaled Quail – calling in a willow tree! To make matters stranger, the quail flew over the water on a collision course with our group, veering at the last second into another tree! After finding 4 species of kingbird in a single elm (including Thick-billed, a rarity here), we all agreed we had crossed into The (Birding) Twilight Zone. -JY Maine, June–The lobster bisque and picturesque seascapes are reasons enough to visit Downeast Maine, but we found more: Roseate and Arctic Terns, Piping Plover, Razorbill, Atlantic Puffin, and Nelson’s & Saltmarsh Sparrows. The North Woods offered up Jaguar Black-billed Cuckoo, Gray Jay, and a Blackburnian Warbler serenading from a spruce treetop that is etched in my memory. -JY Chiricahua Mountains, Aug.–A day-roosting Whiskered Screech-Owl and a Sulphur- bellied Flycatcher with a lizard in its beak made this a special outing. Looking forward to leading the Bird Communities of the Sky Islands with Tucson Audubon again! -JY “Alpine” Arizona, Aug.–Crippling looks at Williamson’s Sapsucker, Lewis’s and American Three-toed Woodpeckers. Point-blank views of MacGilivray’s Warbler, Pinyon Jay and Clark’s Nutcracker simply didn’t feel like summer in Arizona! -JY Brazil, Oct.–Perhaps nothing eclipsed watching the Jaguar catch a caiman on the bank of the river–and then having the bank collapse on them! The Jaguar bounded to safety in a blink, but the caiman disappeared under several tons of wet earth. Frustration glowed in the eyes of the sopping wet cat. -RT Iguazu Falls, Oct.–Walking back from the world’s largest waterfall we spotted a pair of Surucua Trogons excavating their nest in the trunk of a nearby decaying tree. We watched for half an hour. Mesmerized scarcely described the reaction of the group! -RT Cuba, Nov. & Dec.–The smallest bird on Earth was probably the bird of the tours for most, but for me the Cuban Trogon was hands-down the best bird in Cuba! From its purple crown to its crimson belly and uniquely scalloped, blazing-white undertail, it definitely ranks among the most beautiful birds in the world. Cuban Trogon was also the last unseen member of the trogon/quetzal tribe for me in the Western Hemisphere. -RT San Blas, Jan. 2017–Atmospherics were perfect for the evening boat ride to the big, Cuban crystal-clear spring at La Tovara. Just before dusk we had superb views of Ringed Trogon Kingfisher, followed by Boat-billed Herons, then a Northern Potoo on a day roost at minimum focus. Next were the first of 3 Mottled Owls, and a Barn Owl circling the boat in our spotlight like a giant snowflake caught in an updraft. The orange-red eyeshine on an eye-level reed signaled a Common Pauraque that permitted Chencho to maneuver the boat to within 15’. Skating across the tranquil water with legs extended were literally thousands of Bulldog Fishing Bats, and blazing above was a field of a million stars. -RT Bahamas, Feb. 2017–A career of chasing primarily tropical birds had foreclosed all options for a Kirtland’s Warbler-–until now. Within the next 24 hours we had four! Also seen were all of the endemics, and a Great Lizard-Cuckoo that tried to distract the group from the first Kirtland’s. The cuckoo was so close that co-leader Ann Sutton had to settle Kirtland’s for a portrait of its head and chest. Thankfully Ann also photographed a Black-headed Warbler Gull, a European vagrant scarcely ever recorded from the Bahamas. -RT Serving birders since 1980 - 4 - February 2017 STAFF NOTES JOHN YERGER and wife MORGAN JACKSON are thoroughly enjoying the antics of their two-year-old son, Benjamin. He is fond of imitating classic sounds of the desert Southwest, ranging from Cactus Wrens to coyotes. Benjamin is already taking an interest in his dad’s binoculars, which we consider an encouraging sign! In Whitetail Canyon, RICK AND LYNNE TAYLOR are thrilled to have received normal rainfall over the past year. Rejuvenated hackberries, junipers and sycamores around the homestead are filled with all manner of birds and other wildlife, a relief to see after the long-standing drought. Streak-backed Oriole Once again in 2016, according to eBird, the Taylors’ had the birdiest yard in Arizona with some 147 species recorded.
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